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📢 Updates on Intellectual Property in China and Taiwan - July 2024 📢The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has introduced new guidelines to improve the quality of patent invalidation hearings. Among...

The Executive Yuan has approved a plan to spend NT 300 billion dollars in the next 10 years to fund innovations that would combine the use of generative artificial intelligence...

The patenting process has long been known for being a long waiting game. Not only do applicants need to have an invention that is new, inventive, and industrially applicable, they...

Tech incubator Taiwan Tech Arena was formed by the Cabinet in 2018. Its aim was to nurture chip-focused start-ups and recruit international talent to Taiwan by optimizing the investment environment...

On 1 January 2017, an amendment in rule 116 of the Singapore Patents Rules which introduces Chinese, in addition to English, as a language for international applications and request forms...

With the introduction of 4th revision of China’s Patent Law on 1 June, 2021, we have reported the new developments of China’s patent linkage system

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach  - 22 December 2021 - Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited  ("Comba Telecom" or "the Group", SEHK stock code: 2342), a global leading wireless solutions provider, secured a significant win in its...

In Indonesia, third-parties may file a request for post-grant opposition before a Patent Appeal Commission. The Commission is not part of the Patent Office but is an independent commission under...

Singapore currently stands as the only country in the Southeast Asian region where Patent Term Extensions (PTE) are possible, at least in theory. In practice, however, the stringent conditions which...

Singapore has launched a plan on 26 April 2021 that indicates its ongoing and future efforts to keep it as a global hub for enterprises with IA/IP investments. Singapore has...